Originally Posted by
Bozo the pilot
First of all, I am trying to leave, CBA or not. I believe I deserve the best contract I can find. Although B6 can afford to pay industry leading pay for the 320/321, I highly doubt they will.
Id say DAL or UAL minus 3-5% pay, comparable reserve/work rules, mildly better health care than present and less than leading retirement.
What I deserve and what I expect are not congruent and although the NC are doing their best, the company will continue to lie and attempt to short-change the pilot group. Of course staffing issues could prove helpful.
Do you have faith in this company to provide "industry leading" anything? What do you base that on?
They'll go out of business if they don't.
My whole point is there's one range of opinions which says "it doesn't matter how much they pay us, or how good the CBA is, everyone's going to bail from here".
There's another range of opinions, which is where I'm at, which says "if they pay us as well as the best other options, and give us as good of a QOL, I might maybe stick around".
This place can no longer afford to NOT pay us in line with the leaders. They'll run out of pilots if they don't.
Believe me, I'm trying to get out of here also. I know this place is a career dead-end, currently. When we see the CBA, we'll know if management and the BOD plan on this place continuing to exist or not.